Benjamin and Uwe, Thank you both for your advice about Ansible. I have not used it before but after a look over it, it does seem it'll be useful. I'll look into it further -- thank you!
Ray On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Redling <benjamin.ra...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > > Am 11. April 2017 08:21:31 MESZ, schrieb Uwe Sauter <uwe.sauter...@gmail.com>: >> >>Ray, >> >>if you're going with the easy "copy" method just be sure that the nodes >>are all in the same state (user management-wise) before >>you do your first copy. Otherwise you might accidentally delete already >>existing users. >> >>I also encourage you to have a look into Ansible which makes it easy to >>copy files between nodes (and which helps not to forget a >>node when updateing the files). >> >> >>Regards, >> >> Uwe ... > > Indeed, look into ansible and avoid "ad-hoc". > Ansible has a module "user" to handle that case with grace -- no accidental > overwriting. > > Regards , > Benjamin > -- > FSU Jena | JULIELab.de/Staff/Benjamin+Redling.html > vox: +49 3641 9 44323 | fax: +49 3641 9 44321
